KARMIDA, Morocco — Amina el-Filali, a moon-faced Moroccan peasant girl, seemed destined for an obscure life in this dreary little farming village 50 miles south of Tangiers. KARMIDA, Morocco — Amina ...

The French Supreme Court validated on Wednesday the marriage of a Franco-Moroccan homosexual couple, ruling that the fundamental freedom to marry outweighed a bilateral agreement between France and ...

Last month a religious leader in Morocco, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al-Maghraoui, received a question on his website about whether a woman can get married before reaching puberty. He responded ...

Morocco's 2004 family code puts the legal age of marriage at 18, but it includes a clause allowing judges to give families special dispensation to marry off children under that age. Rights groups have ...

Although lawmakers have tightened the rules governing the marriage of minors since 2004, it is still possible for a man to marry a young girl in Morocco. Many hope that the reform of the family code ...

Moroccan activists have stepped up pressure on the government to scrap a law that allows rapists to avoid prison by marrying their victims. It comes after a 16-year-old girl committed suicide when she ...

The Registrar-General and Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Ishaq Hussaini Magaji (SAN), has faced allegations of controversial marital arrangements, property ...

BRIDGEPORT-- Federal agents arrested 10 people early Thursday following a lengthy investigation into a five-year scam in which marriages between Moroccan and American citizens were arranged to allow ...